Despite less baseline morbidity compared to men, women exhibit a significantly higher mortality in tertiary and surgical referral cohorts, which can be independently predicted by presence of significant aortic
For ICA, the primary goal is the characterization and detection of a high-grade obstructive stenosis to define feasibility and necessity of percutaneous or surgical revascularization. The use of physiologic indices (IFR and FFR) provides complementary functional information (1). Radiation exposure to ...
Examples include an incomplete surgical or percutaneous revascularization (unrevascularized territories due to poor targets, chronic occlusion, or diffuse disease), prior MI without culprit artery revascularization, or prior MI with residual obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in a non–infarct-...
It has had a surgical neurectomy performed on a heel nerve, which has not been approved by the official veterinarian; 18. It has been trachea tubed to artificially assist breathing; 19. It has been blocked with alcohol or otherwise drugged or surgically denerved to desensitize the nerves ...